
It was originally developed by Crytek as a technology demo for Nvidia and, when the company saw its potential, it was turned into a game. CryEngine 1 ĬryEngine 1 is a game engine used for the first-person shooter video game Far Cry. Versions This diagram illustrates the development history of CryEngine game engine versions. Key frame-accurate sounds in animations.Interactive and destructible environment.Integrated multi-threaded physics engine.Procedural motion warping and IK solutions.Tessellation (computer graphics) and Displacement Mapping.Screen Space Directional Occlusion (SSDO).Volumetric, layer and view distance fogging.
Dynamic volumetric light beams and light shaft effects. Motion blur and depth of field with sprite-based bokeh. Normal maps and parallax occlusion maps. Eye adaptation and high-dynamic-range (HDR) lighting. Real time dynamic global illumination. Natural lighting and dynamic soft shadows with penumbra. Real time soft particle system and integrated FX editor. Integrated vegetation and terrain cover generation system. Procedural placement tools and cover generation. "Hot-update" for all platforms in sandbox editor. Simultaneous WYSIWYG on all platforms in sandbox editor. Consequently, in February 2016, Amazon released its own reworked and extended version of CryEngine under the name of Amazon Lumberyard. Ubisoft maintains an in-house, heavily modified version of CryEngine from the original Far Cry called the Dunia Engine, which is used in their later iterations of the Far Cry series.Īccording to various anonymous reports in April 2015, CryEngine was licensed to Amazon for $50–70 million. Warhorse Studios uses a modified version of the engine for their medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It has also been used for many third-party games under Crytek's licensing scheme, including Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 and SNOW. It has been used in all of their titles with the initial version being used in Far Cry, and continues to be updated to support new consoles and hardware for their games.
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Source-available commercial software with royalty model for commercial useĬryEngine (stylized as CRYENGINE) is a game engine designed by the German game developer Crytek.